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Questions about designing the aesthetic look of websites, both practical and theoretical. For questions about coding the structure of a website, please go to Stack Overflow. For questions about the user experience, please go to UX.SE. Ask anything related to designing graphics and visual layouts ...

Me and some people i met online have created a non-profit forum for flight simmers and we have almost reached 300 members. Until now we have used some bad template as logo but we have now decided to ...

I need to save out some images for a website project at work. These images will span the full background of the site using background-cover. I first thought that svg would be the correct choice but I ...

I'm trying to create a Bootstrap grid. But on 1170 width, each column is 97.5 wide, so I will need to create decimal guides.
But when I add a guide with the "add new guide" tool, it always round up ...

I've been a freelance designer for about 7 years, but more recently have been functioning more as an agency with private project and a few staff....I wanted to get some advice on some issues that keep ...

I have recently downloaded the Sketch app and I have been trying to figure out how to export to PDF with the included layout grids drawn on the design. I wanted to reach out to experienced Sketch app ...

I'm hoping I may be able to find someone who may be able to help with illustrator.
I'm currently trying to create a header for a blog, although every time i save to web, the image appears pixelated. ...

I'm a web designer currently working with a very demanding client.
I presented them with designs back in May and I'm still working through amends with them. They are making changes to everything and ...

I am using Illustrator CC to design web sites and mobile apps. Each view is in its own artboard which means that I get about 20 different artboards in the end. In photoshop I have a phone mockup file ...

I need advice on what program to use to create an opening animation for a webpage that looks similar to this: http://melaniedaveid.com/
I am most familiar with adobe illustrator and am not familiar ...

Aside from its bitmap effects, can someone tell me why I should use Photoshop for creating website layouts instead of Illustrator? To the best of my knowledge Photoshop was never intended to be used ...

I'm designing a responsive website comp in photoshop. My display is 1920x1080. My comp is 1366 pixels. How will the comp look on retina display? Having a hard time wrapping my brain around how these ...

As in my other questions I am running Inkscape 0.91. I have become quite fond of using Inkscape to build my wireframes, so I have a question.
Let's say I applied a drop shadow filter to an object in ...

I love the appearance of traditional url's, because the www in front of them eases and speeds up my understanding that there's definitely a certain web adress.
But is there any established guideline ...

I created a vector graphic in Illustrator CC and used "Save for Web" to create a transparent PNG of it. When rendered on my site, though, it adds a faint light outline around the gray circle in the ...

I would like to do something like this: http://www.fixed.com/ It's quite common, but I have not been able to find a site or psd download that allows users to embed screenshots in phones. Does anyone ...

As you can see in this picture, the edges are very rough because ive used the the brushes with background color. What I want to achieve is the perfect curve for this angle. I tried to edit the brush ...

I'm trying to design a responsive web site in Photoshop. But the question is should I design different PSDs for all these devices? (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile)
If yes, what page size should I choose in ...

I'm wondering if there's a tool out there that can be used to measure all the elements of a web page. I find Chrome's element inspector very handy, and I'm curious if there is a tool that would enable ...

Using a predefined .indd file for blog posts and website content I would like to be able to export all special characters as their unicode value but I'm having trouble finding a solution other than ...

Since graphic or web designers focus on typography and different ways to treat the typeface, can we call them typographers?
Graphic and web designers spend significant time on choosing the typeface, ...

I'm using illustrator and I have a graphic that is 22 pixels by 22 pixels. I export it as a png with 72 resolution, and it constantly comes up blurry. Is it just because it's too small? On my mac it ...